Semi-automated 3-dimensional intracardiac echocardiography: Development and initial clinical experience of a new system to guide ablation procedures

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1453-1459

  Knackstedt, Christian ^a   Franke, Andreas ^a   Mischke, Karl ^a   Zarse, Markus ^a   Gramley, Felix ^a   Schimpf, Thomas ^a   Plisiene, Jurgita ^a   Muehlenbruch, Georg ^a   Spuentrup, Elmar ^a   Ernst, Sabine ^b   Willems, Stephan ^c   Kirchhof, Paulus ^d   Schauerte, Patrick ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Catheter ablation; Intracardiac echocardiography; Three dimensional imaging of the heart

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMORAL VEIN; GREAT BLOOD VESSEL; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART CATHETER; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART CYCLE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, FOUR-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART ATRIA; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOFTWARE; SWINE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 33845193413     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.05.026     Document Type: Article

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